Ortiz goes to bat for Barry  —  TORONTO - Barry Bonds is coming to Fenway Park [map] in a little more than a month, and already, David Ortiz [stats] can tell that his reception is going to be ugly.  —  Red Sox 2007 Roster  —  Take an interactive look at the 2007 Red Sox roster.  —  » Click here

Henderson wants one more chance  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Roger Clemens' big announcement this week has Rickey Henderson hoping some club might give him one more chance to make a major league comeback.  —  Otherwise, he will call it a career — for good this time.

Missed call haunts Yankees  —  Disputed stolen base in eighth leads to game-tying run  —  NEW YORK — You could see the dirt, the outfield grass, and the disgust on the faces of Yankees fans.  You could see the beginning of a Mariners game-tying run.  And you could see what eventually doomed the Yankees on Monday night.

Tom Verducci: Top 10 players under the age of 25  —  Does it occur to you, too, that baseball has an '80s fixation?  That the coverage of the sport seems skewed toward guys who were playing when cool guys wore Members Only jackets and grooved to A Flock of Seagulls on their Walkman?

Pirates' pitchers need to be more like Maglie, Drysdale  —  At Don Drysdale's funeral, an emotional Bob Uecker began telling the assembled mourners about "the first time Don touched me."  Then, he interrupted himself.  —  "Well, here, I can just show ya," the former catcher said.  "See this mark right here?"

Sluggers Cited in Steroid Inquiry  —  Investigators of steroid use in baseball are seeking medical records from at least two of the game's premier sluggers over the past dozen years, Sammy Sosa and Rafael Palmeiro, along with records from dozens of other players suspected of using performance-enhancing drugs …

Baseball's Top 50 MVPs  —  Ranking the hottest properties in the game today  —  Baseball ratings are up by more than 20 percent this season, and I think I know the reason why.  Rarely has there been so much star talent accumulated on the diamond at any one time.

Marlins hitters on record strikeout pace  —  MIAMI (AP) — Miguel Cabrera backs away from the plate, rubs his knee, arches his back, stretches his arms, spits, taps each shoe with his bat, steps back into the box, adjusts his helmet, scuffs the dirt, crouches and gives the bat a menacing waggle.

Buzz cuts  —  This was a strange pregame.  —  Twenty-one out of the 25 Mets now have buzzed heads or shaved heads, with Carlos Beltran serving as the main barber in the clubhouse during pregame as most of the players on the club buzzed their heads.  Other people affiliated with the team …

Nationals select contracts of Simontacchi and Batista, place Wagner on 15-day DL, designate Wilson  —  The Washington Nationals today selected the contracts of right-handed pitcher Jason Simontacchi and infielder Tony Batista from Columbus of the Triple-A International League.

Magic Tickets: The NL East for April '07  —  With the first full month of the 2007 season in the books, it's not too early to look at how clubs are doing in terms of ticket sales.  By taking a look at April's sales, we can get an idea of how last season's wins and losses might impact off-season sales …

Yanks ban alcohol from cluhouse; Rays study move … The rapid evolution of the alcohol policy in Major League Baseball continues.  —  The Tampa Bay Devil Rays are in the process of reviewing their policy, and the New York Yankees have joined the Oakland Athletics in banning alcohol in both their home and visiting clubhouses.